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Old 08-22-2007, 12:22 PM   #4
johnfowles
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Default Re: posting with attachments ???

Point of order Madame Morerator (my turn to rap your knuckles!!) why is your thread not in the test forum??
(I had already started a thread "I am my own Volunteer" that you could have replied to nobody else has yet bothered!!)
pending relocation of this thread I will submit my thoughts here and now
I don't think you can initially show an uploaded picture in the body of your posting.
As far as I can tell, and
Florian correct me if I have got it wrong
using the "Manage Atachments" facility only uploads the picture then shows at the bottom of your message a smart rectangle entitled "Attached thumbnails".That appered as I showed yesterday at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=17534
when I uploaded a sample album cover "Beauty And The Beat" it was a clickable thumbnail that led to

Note that the URL is a corfid specific one with a reference number not the original's file name at all
Also Vicki for me the thumbnail and its rectangle appeared yesterday when I previewed my posting "I am my own volunteer"
AND just now when I checked to get the URL. So I do not understand why both yours and Char's postings have no thumbnail rectangle. Lets see if this new posting from me works as yesterday's did...
if you want to include as I just did above the picture in the traditional bulletin board code fashion you might be able to use the following workaround because every file stored on the internet by definition really has an address (URL) so if you when previewing click the thumbnail the full sized picture should open from which in time-honoured fashion a simple right click and "properties" selection will reveal the URL as in my example above. NO see below it don't work at all at all!!!
As further elucidation I will now upload the combined alternative CD artwork being frequently used by a peddlar on Ebay of the old Warner-Seven Arts GL Demos. The auctions always use very small pix so without buying one just to make larger scans, I have combined the two available litle pix and then enlarged them , hence the unavoidable "fuzziness"
John Fowles
Sime more notes
  • Dang the URL is not a linkable picture URL because the forum despite my correct use of the two image tags [img] and[/img] the forum then treats the only available URL as a standard URL and shows it as a regular hyperlink,as a check I then tried to "save picture as" and my original jpg file name appeared but trying to link to that directly on corfid appears impossible so regrettably you'll just have to use the regular tags and upload the picture to a storage site if you wish to include it in the body of your posting therefore I for one consider the "Manage Attachments "feature is a red herrring and of very limited use.
    Florian comments please
  • Also it is not available from the "quick reply" either so you'd have to use the "Advanced" option
  • After uploading any uploaded files are shown just above the "Manage Attachments" button
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